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Kinetoplast is made up of copies of:
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Kinetoplast is a specialized mitochondrial region in kinetoplastids like Trypanosoma and Leishmania, containing concatenated network of circular DNAs: many minicircles and ~20-50 maxicircles. Maxicircles encode mitochondrial respiratory proteins, while minicircles guide RNA editing of those transcripts.
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